GLOBAL IMPACT SPEAKER SERIES

A Rural Health Initiative for the Base of the Pyramid:

GE Healthcare’s Vision and Strategy

Who	Rex Widmer Director, Rural Health R&D GE Healthcare
When	Thursday, November 12 2009 4:30 – 5:30pm
Where	E1550 Ross School of Business
	Reception to Follow

Rex Widmer is a passionate advocate for pro-poor business innovation at GE Healthcare.

As leader of GE Healthcare’s Rural Health R&D initiative, Rex is responsible for the design, development, assessment, and deployment of medical devices uniquely suited for low-resource rural settings of the developing world. Originally from Guyana South America, Rex joined GE in 2000 after graduating from Beloit College with a BA in Economics & Management.

About GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Our expertise in medical imaging, health diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, and biopharmaceutical technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries.

For more information about the Global Impact Speaker Series, contact wdi-spss@umich.edu.

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